Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleague from the athletic, Stuart Mandel.

A bunch of stuff to get to, Stu, in the college football world.

But first, so you and I were not together last week.

You've been in Europe for two weeks, I think, or so.

How did the trip to France go? It was fantastic. It really was.

You know, my wife and I went there on our honeymoon 11 years ago, and we thought, hey, we'll,

you know, we love France. We love Europe. I'm sure we'll keep going all the time. But that was

right before we moved from New York to California, and we hadn't been back since because it's a long way to go.

But I encrited to her for planning most of this.

She studied in college.

She spent a year abroad in Exxon-Provance.

I had only ever been to Paris.

So this trip, we started in Paris, but then I got to see the rest of France, the

countryside in Provence, the beach down in the Riviera, and we had our six-year-old with us,

and she loved it. So I can't recommend it enough, not just the country, but this is the first

time since that honeymoon that I had taken two weeks off of work at once.

And granted, I was still checking Twitter at least once a day, see what's going on with realignment.

But it's not the same as when you're, as you know, like when you're home and at work and you're just on that thing all day and slack and and everything else so yeah

i ask you this question you said your wife your wife um plan most of this did you plan any of it

were you just along for the ride no i mean i did any input yeah i did i mean she she had a better

idea of the geography and like what what order of events what, how you get from place to place and whatnot. But I was very involved with like, which hotel should we stay in, which restaurant should we eat at. How do we get from the airport to this? You know, there's more little things you don't think about when it.

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